Archive for category Biogas
California Egg Farm Installs Chicken Poo-Powered Fuel Cell
FuelCell Energy, one of the companies promoting alternative energy sources, announced the sale of a chicken poo-powered fuel cell to an egg farm in California. The 1.4-megawatt fuel cell system will produce enough energy to supply the farm’s operations.
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Bio-Bug Becomes Britain’s First Car to Run on Methane Gas Produced from Human Waste
The team modified a 2 litre VW Beetle convertible to run on both compressed methane gas and conventional fuel. It can also travel 10,000 miles by the power produced from sewage collected from just 70 homes.
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Milk Company From Ukraine Producing 1.3 MW of Power With 4,000 Cows And a CHP System
From the former block of communist countries, Ukraine stands up and produces energy from the cow farms they own. The Ukrainian Milk Company Ltd, near Kiev, the country’s capital, has just implemented a CHP (combined heat and power) generator powered by 4,000 cows.
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70 Mumbai Buses Running on Hydrogen Mixed With CNG by End of 2010
Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas, Hydrogen Power on June 1, 2010
India’s largest bus manufacturer, Ashok Leyland, is going to implement a 6-liter engine that will run on clean natural gas (CNG) enriched with hydrogen, making it the first bus powered by an internal combustion engine aided by hydrogen.
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New Sources of Combustible Ice Could Power China for 90 Years
China has recently discovered major deposits of combustible ice on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. According to the researchers, this new source of low-emission fuel could power China for 90 years.
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Colorado Company Uses Concentrated Solar Power to Transform Biomass into Gasoline
Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas, Solar Power on March 11, 2010
Sundrop Fuels, a Louisville, CO, -based company has developed a method of using concentrated solar power to heat the biomass to 1200 or 1300 ºC, and even produce syngas more efficiently than the standard technology, which uses only 30 to 35 percent of the biomass.
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Hell’s Gate in Turkmenistan: Burning Precious Energy for Nothing Since 1971
This hole (initially a gas-filled cave) has been named “Hell’s Gate”, for obvious reasons. It was discovered when some geologists have been searching for natural gas, in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, in Darvasa. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 50-100 meters.
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Biomass Plant to Generate 49KW of Green Electricity to 50,000 Homes
Posted by Mike in Biogas, Green Buildings on December 20, 2009
The project led by Bio Energy Investments will be constructed on the banks of River Tees in Teesside. It will generate enough energy to power up to 50,000 homes and will save 140,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually through the use of carbon neutral woodchip.
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Dutch Company Generates Cow-Manure Power to 1,100 Homes
I have been to the Netherlands this summer, in my honeymoon. While you travel down their free and super-strictly speed limited highways (120km/h), you’ll see a lot of cows on the left… and on the right (the pic above is taken by my wife).
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